Re: Removing all remaining distinction between shared, debug, profile and static libs/executables

[Adrian Robert]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

>  1. remove the difference between shared_obj, shared_debug_obj,
> static_profile_obj, etc. too.  Just use './obj' for everything  
> (this is
> kind of a no-brainer, now that there is no longer any difference in  
> the
> installed libraries, can't see any reason to keep a difference while
> building!).  Another advantage
> is we no longer need a symlink here :-)

This is probably best for simplification as you say but it will  
impose a cost to switching back and forth between, e.g., profiled and  
non-profiled versions.  With the final library names merged you can  
still switch between them by doing a new "make install" (which will  
not require any compilation once you've built both), but merging  
these build directories means a full recompilation is needed to make  
the switch.  Correct me if I'm missing something.  Maybe it's not a  
big deal since one can do a manual work-around.